Informance News 3/28/2007

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	Informance complements our strategic efforts to migrate all business unites to common platforms. Ron Christenson Cargill, Corporate VP and CTO EMI applications, such as Informance, generally begin to deliver value within days of being installed, offering an ROI that's measured in weeks and months, not years. Allison Smith AMR Research, Research Director We consistently strive for best-in-class manufacturing performance. Informance enables effective continuous improvement, which is key to manufacturing flexibility, low variability, and, ultimately, outstanding customer value. Ish Ahamed Diageo Plainfield, VP Supply Informance allows us to apply TPM loss elimination principles across our plants... We now have visibility of this information regardless of where you sit and can help replicate the improvement gains across multiple factories. Tony Lippert Unilever, Plant Manager Schienvar calls the Informance Manufacturing Intelligence Suite used at L'Oreal a 'beautiful tool.' Scott Schienvar L'Oreal, Logistic Director Informance gives us visibility into all of the facilities across our plant network to drive operational success. Steve Belke AkzoNobel, Supply Chain VP The competitive climate is changing at an increasing pace. Managers are drowning in data, but starving for relevant information. Carol Ptak Pacific Lutheran University, Former President APICS By focusing on operator-identified problems, we addressed the obstacles from each operation within the value stream. Pat Hatem JohnsonDiversey, Plant Manager We can show the cost of not spending capital at the push of a button. Rich Mosgrove Ventura, VP Manufacturing

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INFORMANCE PROMOTES EDWARD TOUNG TO VP PRODUCTS

Newest member of management team to compound customer focus.

REDWOOD CITY, CA — March 28, 2007 — Informance International, a leader in Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI) solutions, announces the addition of a new member to the executive team: Edward Toung joins as the Vice President of Products and will report to Sunil Singh, CEO and President.

“Our customers have experienced significant gains in manufacturing operational efficiencies using Informance next-generation EMI solutions,” said Mr. Singh. “Ed will ensure customers continue to have access to the most advanced, easiest-to-use manufacturing analytics available today.”

Edward Toung has built successful product management and development teams for technology firms, delivered solutions for global manufacturers, and has been a member of the Informance team since 2004. Mr. Toung was most recently Informance’s Senior Director of Products and a key figure in the development of the Informance Enterprise Solution, released earlier this year. Prior to Informance, he worked with global manufacturers in the US and Asia to improve supply chain performance and manufacturing efficiency. During his time with E2open as Director of Network Solutions, Ed worked alongside leading High Tech Manufacturers to automate their global supply chains. He focused on Business-to-Business integration projects with hundreds of trading partners. Previously, Toung was with Ariba, a leading provider of spend management solutions, as the group product manager for its contract management solution. Earlier, as i2’s SRM group product manager, he was a key figure in conceiving and delivering the first release of Tradematrix and RHYTHM Collaboration Planner – one of the first web-based collaboration solutions in the Supply Chain space. Mr. Toung has delivered solutions to and worked on joint development projects with a number of prominent manufacturers like IBM, Matsushita/Panasonic, Hitachi, LG Electronics, Solectron, and Dell. With more than ten years of technology development and product leadership experience, Ed received graduate degrees in Industrial Engineering and Technology Management from the University of California, Berkeley and his B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University.

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